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’15Mar31Tue

The country star was admired by both Johnny Cash and Kurt
Vonnegut; it’s not surprising they felt kinship with a man whose
songs were perfect short stories

It might seem odd to consider someone who’s written almost 40
top 10 hits as little known, but in the UK at least, Tom T Hall’s
name isn’t one most music fans will be familiar with. The majority
of those songs were on the US country music charts, and it’s only
been the rarest country star who’s made it to household-name status
in Britain. Yet to consign Hall and his treasure trove of songs to
oblivion doesn’t just do the man and his work a disservice, it
impoverishes our globalised culture immeasurably.

’15Mar20Fri

What began as an event for indie labels and stores to flourish
has been hijacked by major labels. Now, shops and customers suffer
jacked-up prices, says Sonic Cathedral label boss, Nathaniel
Cramp

Last week, after people had had enough time to digest the 587
releases on this year’s Record Store Day list, my label, Sonic
Cathedral, joined forces with Bristol agent provocateurs Howling
Owl to issue a cryptic and poetic statement about a new joint
release. It would feature Spectres and Lorelle Meets the Obsolete
covering each others’ songs – and we weren’t releasing it
for RSD. Instead, we announced we were going to release one copy
per day, every day, for the next year via
recordstoredayisdying.com. It was a light-hearted way of making a
point that every day should be record store day; the logistics –
such as realising 2016 was a leap year – could come later.

’15Mar18Wed

Calling an album consisting of a dozen original songs
traditional may seem strange, but Wood, Wire & Wood
surely is. Blake pens story songs about past events and composes
instrumentals with roots in an earlier period.

Most acoustic music fans know Norman Blake from his early days
the late sixties and early seventies. He served as a regular on the
Johnny Cash television show, recorded with Bob Dylan on his seminal
country release Nashville Skyline, belonged to John Hartford's
revolutionary bluegrass band, and received a gold record for his
participation on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's renowned, Will the
Circle be Unbroken album. While Blake has released over three dozen
records…

’15Feb19Thu

Were time travel made available to Kid Rock, he would –
according to this album’s title track – go back to the moment he
first locked lips with a lady. Some might consider this a waste of
a considerable quantum-mechanical gift. After all, he could try to
prevent some of the world’s greatest atrocities – ideally starting
with the recording of this, his 10th album, which I am prevented
from declaring the worst album ever made only by the fact that
there are other Kid Rock albums I have yet to hear. Thus I
don’t know if those records feature as many torturous lyrical
cliches as this one (whisky, Jesus, Johnny Cash and beers with the
old man all feature, and that’s just the track titles), or are sung
with such constipated insincerity. I’m not prepared to find out,
either – without a time-travelling machine, there’s no way of ever
unhearing…

’15Feb3Tue

Super producer Rick Rubin recently created an account on lyric
annotation site Genius, and has been dropping anecdotes and sharing
his thoughts on some of his favourite work. He's shared
stories about the making of tracks by artists like Kanye West, Jay
Z, Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash, Slayer and the Dixie Chicks, as well
as leaving annotations on work that he wasn't behind the boards for
from artists like D'Angelo, Beck and Vampire Weekend. Rubin
reveals that while he was vacationing in St. Barth's, he got a call
from West saying he wanted to drop his Paul...